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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:31:49 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        marino@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new USES=tar ?
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgnNN1fhhsRdSCGpFS=GaNbQA7T9tjyH9scRZ8sOPHyLkA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <531EFFF8.2080604@marino.st>
References:  <20140311110549.GK6900@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CAF6rxgk5etUEGDwtDkKDJcP4G3a_=UG9QQ7WgMviQRKwGhr%2BDQ@mail.gmail.com> <531EFFF8.2080604@marino.st>

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On 11 March 2014 08:22, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote:
> On 3/11/2014 13:16, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> On 11 March 2014 07:05, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> To be able to migrate most of the zip files to use bsdtar when they case we have
>>> added USES=zip[:infozip] for consistency I do plan to make the same kind of USES
>>> for every kind of archivers. I am puzzled on how to handle all the tar
>>> extensions what would your propose?
>>>
>>> One USES per extension? (USES=xz, USES=bzip2 etc?)
>>>
>>> or One USES=tar with arguments for extensions?
>>
>> Why does tar need an extension?  why can't tar use the DISTFILE
>> itself? tar supports auto-detection of the format which it is
>> unzipping.
>
> For the automatic DISTFILES definition I assume.

Can we not use the existing solution of EXTRACT_SUFX ?




-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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